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"LOBSTERS" is a plural of: lobster. |
Date "LOBSTERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Large marine decapod crustaceans of the family Homaridae, commonly used for food. (references) |
Literature | Lobsters and Tarpaulings. Soldiers and sailors. Soldiers are now popularly called lobsters, because they are turned red when enlisted into the service. But the term was originally applied to a troop of horse soldiers in the Great Rebellion, clad in armour which covered them as a shell. "Sir William Waller received from London (in 1643) a fresh regiment of 500 horse, under the command of Sir Arthur Haslerig, which were so prodigiously armed that they were called by the king's party `the regiment of lobsters,' because of their bright iron shells with which they were covered, being perfect cuirassiers, and were the first seen so armed on either side."- Clarendon: History of the Rebellion, iii. 91. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Lobster
American Lobster
(larger version)Scientific Classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda Family: Nephropidae Clawed lobsters comprise a family of large marine arthropods. Smaller varieties are sometimes called "lobsterettes". Lobsters have a tough exoskeleton, which protects it, and it is an invertebrate organism. Like all arthropods, lobsters must molt in order to grow, thus it leaves them vulnerable during this time.
Lobsters truly define the statement of “survival of the fittest” from Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Only the biggest and the fittest survive the ocean bottom because it is a fierce world with fierce competition. Those that survive end up on dinner plates. Lobsters are considered a delicacy around the world.
The environmental conditions of the lobsters can vary from ocean to ocean, but the lobster’s temperature environment does not fluctuate much since their home is large mass of water, the ocean.
Like all arthropods, lobsters are bilaterally symmetrical. The anatomy of the lobster includes the cephalothorax which is the head fused with the thorax, and the abdomen. The lobster’s head consists of usually two pairs of antennae, eyes, and mouth. Because a lobster lives at the bottom of the ocean, vision is poor and instead the lobster uses its antennas as sensors. The abdomen of the lobster includes its ten legs and swimmerets.
Types include:
- Atlantic deepsea lobster (Acanthacaris caeca)
- Prickly deep-sea lobster (Acanthacaris tenuimana)
- Red lobster (Eunephrops bairdii)
- Sculptured lobster (Eunephrops cadenasi)
- Banded lobster (Eunephrops manningi)
- American lobster (Homarus americanus)
- Cape lobster (Homarus capensis)
- European lobster (Homarus gammarus)
- Andaman lobster (Metanephrops andamanicus)
- Arafura lobster (Metanephrops arafurensis)
- Armored lobster (Metanephrops armatus)
- Northwest lobster (Metanephrops australensis)
- Caribbean lobsterette (Metanephrops binghami)
- Bight lobster (Metanephrpos boschmai)
- New Zealand lobster (Metanephrops challengeri)
- Formosa lobster (Metanephrops formosanus)
- Japanese lobster (Metanephrops japonicus)
- African lobster (Metanephrops mozambicus)
- Neptune lobster (Metanephrops neptunus)
- Urugavian lobster (Metanephrops rubellus)
- Sculpted lobster (Metanephrops sagamiensis)
- Siboga lobster (Metanephrops sibogae)
- China lobster (Metanephrops sinensis)
- Red-banded lobster (Metanephrops thomsoni)
- Velvet lobster (Metanephrops velutinus)
- Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus)
- Bellator lobster (Thymopides grobovi)
- Mitten lobsterette (Nephropides caribaeus)
- Spinetail lobsterette (Nephropsis acanthura)
- Florida lobsterette (Nephropsis aculeata)
- Prickly lobsterette (''Nephropsis agassizii")
- Scarlet lobsterette (Nephropsis atlantica)
- Ridge-back lobsterette (Nephropsis carpenteri)
- Gladiator lobsterette (Nephropsis ensirostris)
- Saya de Malha lobsterette (Nephropsis malhaensis)
- Ruby lobsterette (Nephropsis neglecta)
- Pacific lobsterette (Nephropsis occidentalis)
- Rosy (or Two-toned) lobsterette (Nephropsis rosea)
- Indian Ocean lobsterette (Nephropsis stewarti)
- Red and White lobsterette (Nephropsis suhmi)
- Grooved lobsterette (Nephropsis sulcata)
- Patagonian lobsterette (Thymops birsteini)
- Nilenta lobsterette (Thymopsis nilenta)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lobster."
Crosswords: LOBSTERS |
| English words defined with "LOBSTERS": American lobster ♦ Bow net ♦ class Crustacea, crawfish, crayfish, Crustacea ♦ Decapoda ♦ European lobster ♦ family Homaridae, family Palinuridae, Fish pot ♦ genus Homarus ♦ Homaridae, Homarus ♦ langouste, lobster pot, lobster tail, lobsterman ♦ Maine lobster, Malacostraca, metameric, morphallaxis ♦ Northern lobster ♦ order Decapoda ♦ Palinuridae, Phyllosoma, Podophthalmia ♦ Reptantia, rock lobster ♦ sea crawfish, segmental, segmented, spiny lobster, subclass Malacostraca, suborder Reptantia ♦ Testaceous animals, Thoracostraca. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "LOBSTERS": Cooks ♦ Lobster, Lobster Sauce ♦ Merrow ♦ pot vessel. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | They looked at me as if I had lobsters crawling out of my ears (A Christmas Story; writing credit: Leigh Brown; Bob Clark) That's right you've got my table but you're not getting my lobsters. (Summer Rental; writing credit: Mark Reisman; Jeremy Stevens) These are my lobsters. (Summer Rental; writing credit: Mark Reisman; Jeremy Stevens) Nice in a bodyguard is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters. (NeverWhere; writing credit: Neil Gaiman; Lenny Henry) | |
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 | A juvenile American Lobster in natural cobble habitat in Rhode Island waters. The blue coloring in lobsters is thought to occur when the crustacean eats primarily one type of food in the lab. However, blue lobsters are occasionally found in the wild as a genetic anomaly. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Nine million individual lobsters were killed during the oil spill. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | DEM biologists measure lobsters to determine size, frequency and distribution of dead lobsters. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Point Judith Pond, RI DEM worker retrieves a lobster pot used to sample lobsters and determine their exposure to oil. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | RI DEM collects stranded lobsters on Moonstone Beach after the oil spill. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Seagulls feed on stranded lobsters and surf clams after the oil spill incident. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | American lobsters live from the rocky coast to the canyons off New England. Homarus americanus. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). | ||
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| "Lobster Pots 1" by Eoghan Mcnally Commentary: "NO LOBSTERS WERE HARMED DURING THE MAKING OF THIS IMAGE." |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | An endocrine system is found in nearly all animals, including mammals, non-mammalian vertebrates (like fish, amphibians, reptiles, and birds), and invertebrates (like snails, lobsters, insects, and other species). (references) | |
Trade | Nicaragua | GON regulations currently prohibit the export of reproductive-phase and under-sized lobsters, larval shrimp, and control the export of wildlife/wildlife products. (references) |
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| "LOBSTERS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 97.40% of the time. "LOBSTERS" is used about 77 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 97.4% | 75 | 38,535 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.6% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 77 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "LOBSTERS": Lobsters thermidor. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "LOBSTERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | languster-slægt (crawfishes, spiny lobsters, tropical spiny lobster, whip lobsters), languster-familien (spiny lobsters), troldhummer-familien (craylets, squad lobsters), gaffkæmi hos hummer (gaffkaemia of lobsters), en art langust (whip lobsters), bjørnekrebs-familien (slipper lobsters). (various references) | |
Dutch | langoesten (crawfishes, spiny lobsters, tropical spiny lobster), zweeplangoesten (whip lobsters), springkrabben (craylets, squad lobsters), galathekrabben (craylets, squad lobsters), beerkreeften (slipper lobsters). (various references) | |
Finnish | langustit-heimo (spiny lobsters), langustit (spiny lobsters, whip lobsters), langusti (crawfishes, spiny lobsters, tropical spiny lobster), ravut (slipper lobsters), hummerit-heimo (craylets, squad lobsters). (various references) | |
French | larves de langouste (whip lobsters), langoustes-fouet (whip lobsters), langoustes (spiny lobsters, tropical spiny lobster), galathées (squad lobsters), cigales de mer (slipper lobsters), \VLO (spiny lobsters), \SLV (spiny lobsters, tropical spiny lobster), \LOS (slipper lobsters), \LOQ (squad lobsters). (various references) | |
German | Hummer (lobster). (various references) | |
Greek | γαλαθείδες (craylets, squad lobsters), λασποκαβούρια (slipper lobsters), αστακός (lobster), αστακουδάκια (whip lobsters), αστακοί (spiny lobsters). (various references) | |
Italian | scillaridi (slipper lobsters), palinuridi (spiny lobsters), magnose (slipper lobsters), galateidi (craylets, squad lobsters), cicale (slipper lobsters), aragostelle (whip lobsters), aragoste (crawfishes, spiny lobsters, tropical spiny lobster). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | obsterslay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | larvas de lagosta (whip lobsters), lagostas (crayfish), galateídeos (craylets, squad lobsters), cigarras e cavacos (slipper lobsters). (various references) | |
Spanish | las langostas (locusts). (various references) | |
Swedish | languster (crawfishes, spiny lobsters, tropical spiny lobster), trollhumrar (craylets, squad lobsters), toffelkräftor (slipper lobsters), pisklanguster (whip lobsters). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Galatheidae, Palinuridae, Palinurus, Palinurus spp., Panulirus, Panulirus spp., Puerulus, Puerulus spp., Scyllaridae. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"LOBSTERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Llobateres, loabster, lobotes, lobstar, logster. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "LOBSTERS" (pronounced lÄ"bsterz) |
| 6 | -Ä" b s t er z | mobsters. |
| 4 | -s t er z | adjusters, administers, ancestors, asters, barristers, blisters, blockbusters, bolsters, boosters, broadcasters, burgomasters, busters, canisters, cannisters, casters, cloisters, clusters, coasters, disasters, dumpsters, dusters, esters, filibusters, forecasters, foresters, fosters, gangbusters, gangsters, hamsters, harvesters, hucksters, impostors, investors, masters, ministers, misters, molesters, monsters, musters, nesters, newscasters, oldsters, oysters, pastors, pilasters, plasters, pollsters, polyesters, posters, postmasters, protesters, protestors, registers, resistors, roasters, roosters, rosters, semesters, sequesters, shysters, sisters, sportscasters, stepsisters, tasters, teamsters, testers, thrusters, toasters, transistors, tricksters, twisters, wasters, youngsters. |
| 3 | -t er z | accelerometers, abductors, accumulators, actors, actuators, adapters, administrators, agitators, alligators, allocators, altars, alters, ammeters, amphitheaters, animators, anteaters, applicators, appropriators, arbiters, arbitrators, auditors, aviators, connectors, conservators, consolidators, conspirators, constrictors, constructors, contractors, contributors, converters, coordinators, copywriters, babysitters, backwaters, barometers, batters, beaters, benefactors, betters, bettors, bitters, boaters, butters, calculators, capacitors, captors, carburetors, carpenters, carters, caters, catheters, centers, centimeters, centres, chapters, characters, charters, cheaters, chiropractors, cogenerators, collaborators, collectors, comforters, commentators, communicators, commuters, competitors, computers, conductors, counterfeiters, counters, covenanters, craters, creators, creditors, critters, curators, cutters, daughters, debaters, debtors, decorators, defaulters, defectors, defibrillators, demonstrators, depositors, deserters, detectors, detonators, detractors, dictators, dieters, directors, discounters, dissenters, distributors, doctors, dosimeters, doubters, drafters, drifters, eaters, editors, educators, elaters, electors, elevators, enchanters, encounters, enters, escalators, estimators, excavators, executors, exhibitors, experimenters, exporters, exterminators, fabricators, facilitators, factors, falters, fetters, fighters, filters, firefighters, floaters, floodwaters, flutters, frankfurters, freighters, garters, gators, generators, getters, gladiators, glitters, granddaughters, grantors, gunfighters, gutters, halters, haters, headhunters, headquarters, headwaters, heaters, helicopters, hindquarters, hitters, hooters, hunters, illustrators, imitators, impersonators, importers, incinerators, incubators, indicators, infiltrators, inhibitors, initiators, injectors, innovators, inquisitors, inspectors, instigators, instructors, insulators, integrators, interceptors, interlocutors, interpreters, interrogators, inventors, investigators, irrigators, janitors, jitters, kilometers, lamplighters, legislators, letters, lifters, lighters, linters, liquidators, liters, litigators, litters, looters, magnetometers, malefactors, manipulators, marketers, martyrs, matters, mediators, mentors, meters, microcomputers, microliters, milliliters, millimeters, minicomputers, moderators, monitors, mortars, motors, mutters, narrators, navigators, negotiators, newsletters, objectors, odometers, operators, orators, orbiters, originators, oscillators, otters, overnighters, painters, parameters, perimeters, perpetrators, persecutors, Peters, picketers, planters, platters, plotters, pointers, polluters, porters, potters, predators, predictors, presenters, printers, proctors, projectors, promoters, proprietors, prosecutors, prospectors, protectors, psalters, putters, quarters, quilters, quitters, radiators, rafters, raptors, raters, reactors, realtors, receptors, recruiters, refractors, refrigerators, regulators, rehabilitators, renovators, renters, repeaters, reporters, respirators, rioters, rooters, rotors, Salters, scooters, scouters, screenwriters, scriptwriters, sculptors, sectors, seedeaters, semiconductors, senators, sequiturs, setters, sharpshooters, shatters, shelters, shooters, shoplifters, shutters, simulators, sitters, skaters, skeeters, skywriters, slaughters, smelters, solicitors, songwriters, sorters, spatters, spectators, speculators, speechwriters, sportswriters, spotters, sprinters, sputters, squatters, starters, staters, stentors, stepdaughters, stimulators, stonecutters, stutters, subcontractors, suitors, supercomputers, superconductors, superminicomputers, supporters, sweaters, syndicators, tartars, tatars, tatters, teeters, telecommuters, telemarketers, theaters, theatres, thermometers, tormentors, tractors, traitors, translators, transmitters, transporters, treaters, tutors, typewriters, underwriters, utters, vectors, Venters, victors, violators, visitors, voters, waiters, waters, weightlifters, wildcatters, winters, writers, yachters. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bolsters. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-l-o-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: bolster, bolters, lobster, ostlers, sorbets, sterols, strobes. | |
-2 letters: besots, bolter, botels, broses, lessor, losers, ostler, robles, rosets, sobers, sorbet, sorels, sorest, sterol, stoles, stores, strobe, torses, tosser, tsores. | |
-3 letters: belts, besot, bests, bless, blest, blets, blots, boles, bolts, bores, borts, botel, brose, lobes, loess, lores, loser, loses, orles, rests, robes, roble, roles, roses. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-l-o-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: storables, strobiles. | |
+2 letters: astrolabes, blusterous, bolsterers. | |
+3 letters: albatrosses, blastoderms, blastomeres, blastopores, blastospore, boilersuits, lobsterings, sailboaters, softballers, stilbestrol, vibratoless. | |
+4 letters: blastospores, blockbusters, bloodstreams, boisterously, hyperbolists, polysorbates, stilbestrols, subthreshold, transposable, trolleybuses, tuberculoses, tuberculosis. | |
+5 letters: bacteriolyses, bacteriolysis, bestsellerdom, borosilicates, bottlebrushes, brotherliness, counterblasts, elaborateness, embryologists, erythroblasts, plasterboards, secobarbitals, sorbabilities, superlobbyist, trolleybusses, troubleshoots, troublousness, vibrationless. | |
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